Local time · Rahway
What time is it in Rahway, New Jersey?
4:50:33AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/New_York
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,763
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rahway
Rahway is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Rahway sits at 40.61°N, 74.28°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rahway.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rahway it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.
At 74.3°W, Rahway sits almost exactly on Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Rahway today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 59 minutes in Rahway, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 49 minutes, from 15 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 16 minutes in December.
At 40.6°N that puts Rahway between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.